Earlier this month, the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships announced its 2015 Northeast Business Leaders for Energy Efficiency, a collection of organizations setting the bar in their efforts to reduce their carbon footprint and reduce energy costs by improve the efficiency of their energy systems.

Six years in, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is generating the energy efficiency savings and green house gas reductions it set out to achieve, according to a new report from the Maine Public Utilities Commission.

The events that took place during Maine Startup and Create Week were an impressive showcase of how grassroots efforts are creating a vibrant innovation ecosystem, allowing Maine to cultivate innovation in ways that warrant our attention.

It’s not every day that the brightest minds at the heart of the Northeast’s flourishing cleantech entrepreneurial community gather in the same room at the same time. NECEC’s Cleantech Navigate Northeast brought together more than 40 company founders, CEOs and executives at its first-ever “Founder and CEO Summit” on June 12.

Energy supply and costs are among our country’s most pressing economic development and policy issues. Here in New England we frequently hear loud grumbling from a variety of stakeholders—and often policy makers—about how the high cost of energy is driving businesses away from New England. Unfortunately, those grumblings are misguided and out of context and not focused on long-term solutions.

As part of its“Clean Talks” panel series, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) held an engaging panel discussion yesterday focused on the challenge of increasing diversity in the clean energy industry.